RUG/Pennsylvania/State College/Printers/PSU Unit A

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Alpha is a wooden Mendel printer currently placed in room 312 of Hammond building on campus. Alpha uses skeinforge to slice the STl file in to G code, which gives alpha better capability printing out circular parts. Alpha was brought to the 2013 EXPO to be a sample printer to show how does a RepRap printer work.

Operating Specifications

Operating Specifications
Name Status Design Electronics Firmware Extruder Temperature Comments
Alpha PSU Unit A Working TechZone Mendel TechZone Gen 3 ???
  • Herringbone Gears
  • Wade's Geared Extruder
  • 1/2mm tip
  • Thermocouple
  • TechZone tip management board
 153C
  • Both alpa and beta may experience extrusion problems that are not temperature related, please follow these guides to fix it Trouble Shooting Guide
  • Y axis is replaced with Ohm design

Details

Acquired in January 2011. Operational by April 2011.


Gallery

  • Spring 2012

  • As of 9/15/11

  • Week 6

  • Week 4

  • Week 2

  • March 2013





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